PROP B: MAKING THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST; MORE GUNS, MORE MAYHEM

To the editor:

Robert A. Cron ridicules anyone with an honest opinion that disagrees with his own. His answer to everything seems to be more guns for everyone. After he demands that everyone be allowed to buy more guns, he then says it is necessary to allow everyone to carry concealed guns for protection from the other people he has encouraged to buy guns in the first place. He belittles sources of gun-related crime statistics unless they agree with him.

It's really very simple: More guns equal more deaths, robberies, drive-by shootings, killing, accidental shootings, profits for gun manufacturers and tragedies.

There are more people killed in the United States by guns than in the rest of the world combined, yet we still need more guns? Why not just issue a gun to each newborn child and get it over with?

S.L. HODGE

Cape Girardeau